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US5249070A
US5249070A US07/776,158 US77615891A US5249070A US 5249070 A US5249070 A US 5249070A US 77615891 A US77615891 A US 77615891A US 5249070 A US5249070 A US 5249070A
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    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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    • G02F1/1337—Surface-induced orientation of the liquid crystal molecules, e.g. by alignment layers
    • G02F1/133753—Surface-induced orientation of the liquid crystal molecules, e.g. by alignment layers with different alignment orientations or pretilt angles on a same surface, e.g. for grey scale or improved viewing angle
    • G—PHYSICS
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    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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    • G02F1/137—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering
    • G02F1/139—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering based on orientation effects in which the liquid crystal remains transparent
    • G02F1/1396—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells characterised by the electro-optical or magneto-optical effect, e.g. field-induced phase transition, orientation effect, guest-host interaction or dynamic scattering based on orientation effects in which the liquid crystal remains transparent the liquid crystal being selectively controlled between a twisted state and a non-twisted state, e.g. TN-LC cell

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  • This invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel for a twisted nematic liquid crystal display (TN-LCD). More particularly, it relates to such panels having multidomain display cells.
  • TN-LCD twisted nematic liquid crystal display
  • a TN-mode cell has anisotropic nematic liquid crystal thin films of a positive dielectric constant interposed between two glass substrates on which transparent electrodes are deposited.
  • the longitudinal axis of the molecules of the liquid crystal are substantially parallel to the planes of the glass substrates.
  • the upper and the lower glass substrates are arranged for a twist angle of almost 90°.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates the arrangement of a conventional TN liquid crystal cell when a voltage is not applied to the cell.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the arrangement of the liquid crystal cell shown in FIG. 1 when an AC voltage is applied to the cell.
  • two polarization plates 1a and 1b are arranged, respectively, so that their transmission or absorption axes align with the direction of arrangement of molecules of the liquid crystal on the respective side of the cell.
  • Transparent electrodes 3a and 3b formed of a transparent conductive film such as, for example, an indium tin oxide (ITO) film, doped with tin oxide, are deposited, respectively, on the insides of the upper glass substrate 2a and the lower glass substrate 2b. After the electrodes, orientation films 4a and 4b are applied. A nematic liquid crystal layer 5 wherein the molecules 6 are represented as cylinders is interposed between the two glass substrates on which the transparent electrodes 3a and 3b are deposited and the orientation films 4a and 4b are applied.
  • ITO indium tin oxide
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a state wherein the orientation film 4a on the glass substrate 2a is rubbed in one direction to align the longitudinal axes of the molecules 6 of the liquid crystal and to tilt the molecules 6 of the liquid crystal at an angle, that is, pre-tilt angle ⁇ 0 , illustrated by a small angle of the molecules with respect to the plane of the substrate when the voltage is not applied.
  • pre-tilt angle ⁇ 0 illustrated by a small angle of the molecules with respect to the plane of the substrate when the voltage is not applied.
  • the incident light which has been changed to linearly polarized light at the polarizing plate 1b reaches the polarizing plate 1a on the outgoing side with the same direction of polarization and a bright state exists because most of the incident light passes through the polarizing plate 1a.
  • the dark and bright state for the liquid crystal cell are reversed with respect to the application of a voltage to the cell.
  • a method for covering the panel with a Fresnel lens was contrived. However, the method has its faults in that the presence of stripes is disagreeable and the costs are rising. Further, another method for forming micro irregularities on the surface of one side of the panel for enlarging the angle of view has been contrived. However, the method also has its faults in that roughness in the perception by the eyes is unavoidable and costs are increased by the necessity of forming the micro irregularities.
  • a liquid crystal display according to the invention comprises a liquid crystal panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, so that each pixel of the liquid crystal panel has a single domain when a voltage is not applied and has a first tilt domain and a second tilt domain of molecules of the liquid when the voltage is applied.
  • the size of the first tilt domain is equal to that of the second tilt domain.
  • the direction of the first tilt is opposite to that of the second tilt.
  • molecules of a liquid crystal in the middle of a cross section of a cell are oriented, at a pre-tilt angle of zero, parallel to the upper and lower glass substrates when a voltage is not applied. Further, to orient the molecules of the liquid crystal at a pre-tilt angle of zero in the middle of the cross section of the cell, when the voltage is not applied, the molecules of the liquid crystal are twisted in a direction, as shown in FIG. 7, which is opposite to that of the twist direction shown in FIG. 1 in which a pre-tilt of molecules of liquid crystal on the orientation films of the upper and the lower substrates are aligned in parallel to one another and are stabilized in this status.
  • Such twist direction of the present invention shown in FIG. 7 is realized (a) by adding chiral dopants into the liquid crystal which gives the twist direction shown in FIG. 7 in combination with rubbing directions which differ by 90 degrees on the upper and lower substrates, (b) by a bias rubbing in which an angle between the rubbing direction on the upper and lower substrates is smaller than 90 degrees, and (c) by adding the chiral dopants into the liquid crystal which results in a twist direction on the upper and lower substrates and by bias rubbing in which an angle between the rubbing direction on the upper and lower substrates is smaller than 90 degrees.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view, taken along line C-D of FIG. 5, of a liquid crystal cell of a conventional liquid crystal panel, when a voltage is not applied.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view, taken along line C-D of FIG. 5, of the liquid crystal cell of FIG. 1, when a voltage is applied.
  • FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are graphs showing the dependence of contrast ratio on angle of view from the upper and lower sides of a liquid crystal display panel in accordance with the prior art.
  • FIG. 5 is an illustration of the rubbing directions for prior art liquid crystal display cells.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view, taken along line A-B of FIG. 8, of a liquid crystal cell in accordance with an embodiment of the invention where a voltage has been applied.
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view, taken along line A-B of FIG. 8, of the embodiment of FIG. 6 to which a voltage has not been applied.
  • FIG. 8 is an illustration of rubbing directions in the embodiment of the invention of FIG. 6 and FIG. 7.
  • FIG. 9 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the directions of the electric lines of force of the electric field in the embodiment of FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 are graphs showing the dependence of contrast ratio on angle of view from the upper and lower sides of the embodiment of FIG. 6.
  • FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 Prior to describing the preferred embodiment of the invention, shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the directions of rubbing in a liquid crystal cell in accordance with the invention are described with respect to FIG. 8.
  • FIG. 8 is an illustration viewed from above upper glass substrate 2a in a direction normal to the plane thereof.
  • arrows 11 and 12 indicate a rubbing direction for the lower glass substrate 2b and the upper glass substrate 2a, respectively. It will be understood that while these rubbing directions apply to each pixel, they may also apply to an entire liquid crystal display panel 14, in a liquid crystal display 16. If a liquid crystal to which no chiral dopant has been added is used and an angle H between arrows 11 and 12 is set to 90°, a right-twisted orientation wherein the best angle of view is in the direction of the arrow 13 is obtained.
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic illustration of a cross section taken along A-B of FIG. 8 when no voltage is applied and FIG. 6 is a schematic illustration of a cross section taken along A-B of FIG. 8 when the voltage is applied.
  • the head of arrow 12 rotates in a counter-clockwise direction toward the head of arrow 11. That is, the rubbing directions, viewed from the direction of the upper substrate, rotate in the counter-clockwise direction.
  • the chiral dopants used in case (a) rotate the molecules of the liquid crystal in the counter-clockwise direction, viewed from the upper substrate, which is the same rotation direction as the above described rotation of the rubbing direction, whereby the arrangement of the molecules of liquid crystal shown in FIG. 7 is realized.
  • an angle H of, for example, 80 degrees, which is smaller than the 90 degrees shown in the FIG. 8, is used.
  • the molecules of liquid crystal are completely rotated in the counter-clockwise direction, viewed from the upper substrate, without any chiral dopants.
  • the rotated direction of the molecules of liquid crystal is also the same as the rotation direction of the arrow 12 toward the arrow 11. Therefore the arrangement of the molecules of the liquid crystal shown in FIG. 7 is realized.
  • an angle H of, for example, 85 degrees (between 90 degrees and 80 degrees) is used.
  • the molecules of liquid crystal do not start the rotation in the counter-clockwise direction by themselves.
  • Chiral dopants, which assist the rotation of the molecules of liquid crystal in the counter-clockwise direction, are therefore required so that the arrangement of the molecules of liquid crystal shown in FIG. 7 is obtained.
  • the arrangement of the molecules of liquid crystal shown in FIG. 7 is obtained due to the rotation direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal.
  • This rotation direction is the same direction as the direction of rotation of the rubbing direction from the upper substrate to the lower substrate.
  • the arrangement of the molecules of liquid crystal, when the voltage is applied, as shown in FIG. 6, is produced by the combination of (1) the arrangement of the molecules of liquid crystal shown in FIG. 7 and (2) the inclined electric field which is generated as a result of the lower electrode 3(b) being smaller in size than the upper electrode 3a.
  • the molecules 6a incline along the inclined electric field, so that the final arrangement shown in FIG. 6 is obtained.
  • the left side and the right side molecules in one picture element are symmetrically inclined when the voltage is applied, so that uniform contrast as shown in FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 is obtained regardless of the viewing angle.
  • FIG. 5 For reference, the direction of rubbing in the prior art is shown in FIG. 5.
  • a pre-tilt state caused by the rubbing shown in FIG. 5 allows a left-twisted orientation, so that the best angle of view is obtained in the direction of arrow 13 in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 are similar to prior art counterparts except that the technique for orienting molecules of the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal cell differs.
  • a domain of each pixel is divided into a positive tilt domain and a negative tilt domain.
  • the size of the positive tilt domain is made substantially equal to that of the negative tilt domain to obtain the best angle of view in a direction normal to the plane of the substrate and to obtain optical characteristics so that the visual field is symmetric in the horizontal direction as well as in the vertical direction.
  • the optical characteristics in accordance with the principle of the invention are described below.
  • each molecule of the liquid crystal is tilted so that its longitudinal axis becomes parallel to the direction of an electric field.
  • FIG. 2 for the prior art, if the molecules of the liquid crystal are uniformly oriented in a pre-tilt state everywhere between the upper and the lower substrates, then application of a voltage between the upper and the lower transparent electrodes causes the molecules of the liquid crystal in the middle of the cross-section of the cell to be uniformly tilted in a direction determined by the pre-tilt state.
  • FIG. 2 for the prior art, if the molecules of the liquid crystal are uniformly oriented in a pre-tilt state everywhere between the upper and the lower substrates, then application of a voltage between the upper and the lower transparent electrodes causes the molecules of the liquid crystal in the middle of the cross-section of the cell to be uniformly tilted in a direction determined by the pre-tilt state.
  • each molecule is also tilted clockwise when the voltage is applied, as shown in FIG. 2.
  • the directions of molecules adjacent to the upper and the lower substrates are not changed due to interaction between the orientation films and the molecules of the liquid crystals, even though the voltage is applied.
  • average tilts of the molecules of the liquid crystal in the entire cell turn in a fixed direction, depending upon application of the voltage.
  • the direction in which the molecules of the liquid crystals are oriented, on average, in the entire cell determines the direction of the optimum angle of view.
  • the direction in which the optimum angle of view can be obtained is not in the normal direction, but in a direction which lies and tilts counter-clockwise to the normal direction.
  • twist is opposite in direction to twist for stabilizing the pre-tilt state
  • the molecules of the liquid crystal extend to some degree and deform.
  • the pre-tilt angle is not uniform in the entire cell, and varies continuously within the range from - ⁇ 0 to + ⁇ 0 along the direction of the thickness of the cell. In the middle of the cross-section of the cell, the pre-tilt angle is zero and the molecules of the liquid crystal are parallel to the upper or the lower substrate.
  • a transparent electrode on the side of TFT substrate is smaller in size than a transparent electrode on the side of the opposite substrate.
  • the size of a horizontal electrode is smaller than that of a vertical electrode in a cross-section taken, for example along line C-D of FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 9 shows the direction 8 of an electric field in a case where the upper and the lower transparent electrodes are different in shape from each other. It will be understood that like reference numerals indicate like parts in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 and FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, respectively.
  • orientation films are omitted.
  • FIG. 9 at the center of the cell, molecules of the liquid crystal 6a and 6b without pre-tilted are shown.
  • the lower transparent electrode 3b is smaller in size than the upper transparent electrode 3a and the electric field is inclined with respect to the substrate at the ends of the lower transparent electrode. Therefore, the molecules 6a and 6b of the liquid crystal tilt clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively.
  • Molecules of the liquid crystal between the molecules 6a and 6b tilt according to their distance from either the molecules 6a or 6b; that is, in the same direction as the tilt of either molecules 6a or 6b, depending upon which are closer to the molecules.
  • two tilt domains which are substantially the sam in size and opposite to each other in direction of tilt are obtained for each pixel.

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